FORTNITE Battle Royale servers are down this morning with matchmaking temporarily disabled and waiting in queue errors likely. This is so Epic Games can release the new Season 4 update on PS4, PC, Xbox and mobile. Patch Notes will follow...

FORTNITE DOWN + 4.4 UPDATE

Fortnite is now offline for all Battle Royale and Save the World players whilst Epic Games roll out the latest 4.4 content update.

The team confirmed this news on Twitter moments ago before directing players to the latest patch notes.

As previously mentioned, it's not clear how long the game could be offline, however, we do at least know some of the official changes Epic have made to the game thanks to the official patch notes.

The headline features include the new stink bomb grenade and Final Fight LTM for Battle Royale players, whilst Save the World gets a new 8-Bit Demo Constructor Demolitionist hero.

You can read everything you need to know about the latest Fortnite 4.4 patch notes on the link or refer to the gallery below.

And stay tuned for more details on when the game is coming back online.

Fortnite 4.4 Content Update

Here's what's new in Fortnite's latest 4.4 Content Update

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New for Battle Royale players

Original Story - Fortnite servers are all set to go down this morning and will remain offline for a number of hours while Epic Games new Fortnite 4.4 content update.

If you're a little confused by the changes to the games schedule which has been a little all over the place in Season 4, here it is.

New game updates normally come every two weeks on a Tuesday. New Challenges and Loading screens arrive on Thursday.

Downtime will once again take place at "4:00am ET (0800 GMT)" as per most Fortnite updates.

Equally, it's worth stressing that although Epic has told followers this will be taking place at8am in the UK, due to the time difference and it now being BST, this will actually occur at 9am for anyone in the UK this morning.

In addition, you can expect as with most Fortnite downtime, that players will be booted from servers up to twenty minutes before the start of server downtime.

Once downtime begins patch notes should be released (although, you can see some early patch notes further down).

And again, when the game comes back online it should return with hopefully the new Stink Bomb grenade which was revealed at the weekend on the in-game menu.

It's not known what other changes could be made to Battle Royale or Save the World.

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There's also going to be the usual array of bug fixes and while we can't say for certain which bugs will be fixed, we have a solid idea based on Epic's Fortnite Trello board.

Keep reading to take a look at some of the main bugs which the Trello board has marked as 'fixed in the next release'.

This isn't to say they'll definitely be included in the next patch. But there's a pretty solid chance.

Battle Royale 'fixed' Issues:

Shopping Carts disabled due to related issues- Due to issues experienced by players we have temporarily disabled Shopping Carts.

Improvements to Twitch Prime flow, Facebook friends, and social friend finding- General improvements to Twitch Prime flow for users attempting to redeem the Prime Pack. Ongoing improvements to Facebook friends, and social friend finding.

Linked Accounts Sharing V-Buck Purchases- Some players with connected/linked accounts may have noticed a lower amount of V-bucks being charged for in-game purchases. This was due to an issue causing some V-bucks to be pulled from one account and the remainder to be pulled from your other linked account if you had V-bucks on there.This is no longer happening.

On top of this, we could learn more about the games new Week 8 Challenges, which were revealed earlier this week via dataminers checking the Battle Royale files.

You can find the full Week 8 Challenge list below:

Deal headshot damage to opponents (0/250)

Search chests in Salty Springs (0/7)

Search chests in a single match (0/7)

TBD (0/1)

Search between... (0/1) HARD

Suppressed weapon eliminations (0/3) HARD

Eliminate opponents in Pleasant Park (0/3) HARD

As you can see, unlike most weeks, we can't be certain what some of these challenges could be, as evident by the TBD challenge.

However, we're likely going to find out more info about this challenge following the games latest update, once that is, players and dataminers have combed through the latest 4.4 Content Update.